The restrictions will continue till forty eight-hours have elapsed since the completion of vote casting, according to a news release of the EC. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The remaining eight-hours other than work and sleep for which the workers fought is not for entertainment as interpreted today. ❋ Abhay N (2007)
So I'm sitting there, zombie-style, pretending to watch Andrew play games when Susie emerges all eight-hours fresh from her full night of sleep from the guest bedroom where she sleeps when I work late. ❋ Unclebob (2005)
Monday for a scheduled eight-hours of bilateral talks. ❋ Unknown (1993)
The adoption in all industrial countries of the 'English week', with its half-holiday so much coveted by the continental worker -- the establishment of a uniform working day -- the gradual introduction of the eight-hours shift into such ❋ Various (N/A)
These girls are working on the eight-hours 'shift system; working so well that a not uncommon wage among them, on piece-work, of course, runs to somewhere between two and three pounds a week, and all the time they are at work they remember that they are doing common service with their husbands, and sweethearts, and sons, and brothers, who are perilling their lives in the trenches. ❋ Unknown (1916)
An eight-hours 'day would have been a holiday to him, for he preached and practised the gospel of work to its fullest extent. ❋ Grenville Kleiser (1910)
It is not even a question of tenhours day and eight-hours day; it is not a question of cutting down leisure to the space necessary for food, sleep and exercise. ❋ Unknown (1905)
Yet it is evident that an eight-hours day of more compressed labour might be of a more exhausting character than a ten-hours day of less intense labour and disqualify a worker from receiving the benefits of the opportunities of education open to him more than the longer hours of less intense labour. ❋ Unknown (1899)
He adds that the children of unmarried mothers should be cared for by the State, that there should be an eight-hours 'day for all workers, and that no children under sixteen should be allowed to work (E. Leyboff, _L'Hygiène de la Grossesse_, Thèse de Paris, 1905). ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)
The curfew-bell still rings in many towers; the harvest-bell, the gleaning-bell, the pancake-bell, the "spur-peal," the eight-hours 'bell, and sundry others send out their pleasing notice to the world. ❋ Unknown (1892)
At that time there was an eight-hours 'drive, if not more, from the railway station to the country house which was my destination. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)
"We must get our decision, our majority of the adult workers in any given district in favour of an eight-hours day," said Wharton, blandly; ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)
His work to-day should make the eight-hours 'man blush. ❋ Various (1876)
I see no new question coming forward, except that of strikes, eight-hours legislation, and Socialism generally. ❋ John Knox Laughton (1872)
This eight-hours 'shift business is just the right thing for training. ❋ Rolf Boldrewood (1870)
Basle, and, in that eight-hours 'start they had of him, to have disappeared to the four cardinal points. ❋ Bret Harte (1869)
The 'eight-hours' doctrine of the political Socialists finds no more favour here with the real working people apparently than elsewhere in France. ❋ William Henry Hurlbert (1861)
Martha's maintaining her flagship show on NBC, but a plan to launch eight-hours of Stewart-centric programming on Hallmark ultimately failed to outperform the reruns of The Golden Girls that once occupied the time slot. ❋ Unknown (2010)
A second group of kids got eight-hours of "safe sex" education, a third received comprehensive eight to 12 hour class emphasizing both aspects of sex education - what some call "abstinence plus." ❋ Unknown (2010)
Joe: Hey man, let's go to the bar tonight!
John: [Sorry bro], I've got an early meeting at work tomorrow. I've gotta get my eight hours.
Sarah: You don't [look so good] today.
Mary: Yeah, I didn't get my eight hours, now I'm really [feelin'] it. ❋ John Perich (2009)
S: [EHS] Front Office
P: Hi, I’m Mrs. [Bueller], my son Ferris is a bit [under the weather]
S: Oh my goodness ma’am, is he okay?
P: I think he’ll be fine. It seem like it’s just a case of the eight hour flu. I’m not too worried. ❋ Mrtruebluetest (2020)
